Capwap Mailing List: Re: status of CAPWAP

[Pat Calhoun (pacalhou) (pcalhoun]

Correct Dan, but publication will have many unintended consequences.
>From what I am being told, this is actively being addressed now, so I
would prefer we hold off a little longer. CAPWAP is not the only
document that is being held up. We already have the RFC numbers if
anyone needs to reference them (e.g., EPCGlobal), and the latest drafts
can be used for anyone actively developing.

Personally, if we believe these need to be published today, then I would
instead ask that we force the RFC Editor to adopt the old rules - which
applied when the spec was written.

PatC

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Harkins [mailto:dharkins [at] lounge.org] 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 1:27 PM
To: capwap [at] frascone.com
Subject: [Capwap] status of CAPWAP


  Hi,

  Last week Mani wrote:

     By the way, following this, at the request of at least one of the
     authors, the three CAPWAP protocol drafts (the RFCs-to-be: 5415,
     -5416 and -5417) in the RFC-Ed queue have been requested to be
     placed on hold until this matter is resolved by way of an early
     work-around from IETF, under discussion in the IETF list.

I am concerned about this. If any protocol needs to be able to evolve,
and create derivative works, it is CAPWAP. Wireless networking is a
rapidly changing field and having a "standard" that cannot change with
it makes that "standard" pointless.

  I politely and respectfully ask the chairs to gauge WG consensus on
the matter of what we want to do with our drafts with respect to RFC
5378
and then to instruct the editor(s) to follow that consensus. If the
editor(s) refuse(s) then I would expect he/she/they to be replaced with
someone who is willing to implement the will of the WG.

  These drafts are not any one person's or any one company's property
and the hangups of any person or company shouldn't trump the will of
the WG.

  regards,

  Dan.


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